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The peacock demon helped Zhan Yan adjust his styling slightly and then pulled him into the studio to start shooting.

Relying on her identity as the game designer, Qi Ye managed to stick around to watch, her eyes shining from time to time as she softly mumbled things like “My cub!” and “So amazing!” under her breath.

Zhan Yan watched the flamingo demon and the peacock demon sort out their relationship in the Gossip System.

…You guys love gossiping way too much!

[The flamingo demon Yan Hang sent a voice transmission to the peacock demon Kong Meng: “Hey, what about the other one? Aren’t there two characters to shoot?”]

This wasn’t the official shoot yet. They were just taking a few test shots to check the camera effect and decide whether to finalize the makeup and styling. After adjusting, it was almost noon, so everyone took a break to eat lunch.

During the break, Zhan Yan heard that Lan Xiqiao’s assistant had called in the morning to say there was a minor accident, so she couldn’t make it in the morning and they would have to wait until the afternoon.

In the afternoon, Lan Xiqiao arrived in a hurry. When she arrived, Zhan Yan had just finished shooting his solo shots. Since it was his first time facing a camera, he wasn’t very natural and lacked a sense of the camera. The peacock cameraman told him to relax first and just do whatever he wanted.

So the excited Qi Ye started pulling Zhan Yan to pose and recite lines.

Zhan Yan felt a little embarrassed at first, but later he was egged on into having fun with it.

He rested one hand on his hip, holding up the jacket that was on the verge of falling off, while his other hand held up a grape still wet with dew. He smiled, his eyes curving: “Have you truly decided? Once you eat my grape, there is no way to turn back, you know.”

Lan Xiqiao: “I’m so sorry for making everyone wait.”

Zhan Yan turned his head. Lan Xiqiao had just walked through the door, her face full of apology. Upon seeing him, she revealed a friendly smile: “You must be Xiao Yan, right? I’m sorry for making you wait so long.”

Zhan Yan felt slightly awkward, unsure if she had seen his chuunibyou moment just now.

Fortunately, Lan Xiqiao didn’t chat much. After greeting everyone, she went to get her makeup done.

Zhan Yan felt she looked a bit haggard. Although she had put on makeup to cover it up when she came, her entire person exuded a feeling of forcefully propping up her energy and spirit.

When getting makeup done, she had to remove her existing makeup first, and once it was removed, it became even more obvious. The entertainment circle really takes a toll on people.

Lan Xiqiao had ample experience in front of the camera. After finalizing her makeup and styling, she began teaching Zhan Yan how to face the camera, and then led him to finish shooting the duo shots first.

She was very good at teaching, and Zhan Yan quickly found his sense of the camera.

During a break in the middle, Lan Xiqiao yawned.

“Did Sister Lan not sleep well last night?” Zhan Yan asked.

Lan Xiqiao: “I didn’t really lack sleep, it’s just that I’ve been dreaming constantly lately.”

She felt that although Sister Ji’s kid might be slightly startling at first glance, after interacting with him for a bit, she found him to be incredibly friendly. That slightly startling non-human feel from earlier was purely brought about by his makeup.

Lan Xiqiao hadn’t slept well for several days in a row, and she couldn’t help but start chatting with Zhan Yan.

Lan Xiqiao had a background in traditional opera and could both sing and act. After entering the entertainment circle, she worked as both an actress and a singer. Her only flaw was that she didn’t know how to write songs.

If a singer wanted to become popular, unless they had an extraordinary, otherworldly voice like Zhan Yunkai’s, mostly it depended on whether they had good songs. Just like how an actor, no matter how good their acting skills, needed a good role to display them.

Given how fierce the competition in the entertainment circle was now, finding a good song was truly not easy.

Whether it was because she thought about it day and night or for some other reason, starting from after the New Year, Lan Xiqiao began having dreams. At first, she dreamt once every few days, but recently it was every single day. Every time, she dreamt of an exquisitely beautiful song. The melody was soul-stirring, and the lyrics were incredibly moving. It was the kind that would become an immortal classic the moment it was written down.

But every time she woke up, Lan Xiqiao couldn’t remember it, which pained her deeply.

Lan Xiqiao had already tried many different methods, such as placing a recorder by her pillow and recording it immediately upon waking up.

But perhaps Lan Xiqiao was simply too sleepy. She would record it and go back to sleep, only to find upon waking up and playing the recorder that she could only hear a series of strange noises caused by pressing the microphone too close to her mouth.

Zhan Yan became curious. He wanted to hear this song!

Moreover, for a person to dream of a song for several days in a row, this feeling was very unusual.

He opened the Gossip System, trying to see if he could find any clues.

[The ghost Lin Yihao believed that while alive, he had written a great masterpiece that was bound to become popular, but he died suddenly before he could publish it. The ghost Lin Yihao was extremely unwilling to let it go and decided to find a lucky person to transmit all his inspiration to.]

[The ghost Lin Yihao chose Lan Xiqiao to inherit his great masterpiece.]

[The ghost Lin Yihao attempted to communicate with Lan Xiqiao in a dream, but because his strength was too weak, the dream communication failed.]

…

[The ghost Lin Yihao attempted to communicate with Lan Xiqiao in a dream, but because his strength was too weak, the dream communication failed again.]

…

Lan Xiqiao’s recent poor condition wasn’t just because she wasn’t sleeping well from the dream communication attempts, but also because having a ghost repeatedly attempt to communicate in her dreams caused the yin energy clinging to her to become heavier and heavier.

This was easy to solve. Zhan Yan currently carried the attention of two demons. He dragged Lan Xiqiao to chat a little longer and saw in the Gossip System that those two gossip-loving bird demons also got curious.

Flamingo demon: “Do you want to know what’s going on?”

Peacock demon: “Yeah, I also want to hear what kind of song it is.”

Flamingo demon: “How about we enter her dream tonight and have a listen?”

Peacock demon: “Sure, if it sounds good, we’ll help her remember this song.”

Problem solved.

The game promotion advertisement was shot very quickly. With Lan Xiqiao’s guidance, the two of them finished all the necessary photos and videos in one afternoon and evening.

After returning home that night, Zhan Yan saw that his brother had brought back a large bag of egg tarts.

The freshly baked egg tarts had a rich aroma. The sweet milky scent mixed with the fragrance of butter and eggs was incredibly tempting.

Zhan Jinli ate an egg tart in two bites, while Xingxing stood by the sofa, its ears twitching in conflict. It wanted to eat, but it didn’t want to bow its head to the bad guy!

Even Zhan Yan was craving it from the aroma. Fortunately, he had the cookies his sister fed him!

The ones his sister brought back today were butter cookies, fragrant and crisp, dissolving in the mouth with a light press, incredibly delicious.

Seeing that Xingxing was craving it so much it could barely hold back, Zhan Yan motioned for his brother to share a bite with Xingxing.

Zhan Jinli used a small spoon to scoop out a bit of the soft and tender custard center of the egg tart and placed it into Xingxing’s food bowl.

Xingxing meowed very reservedly.

You offered this to me yourself.

The siblings gripped the back of the sofa, watching the show.

Xingxing impatiently took a bite of the egg tart center.

Barf—Pah!

It turned to the water bowl beside it and started drinking frantically.

The two bad-intentioned adults hid behind the sofa holding back their laughter, swiftly shrinking down below the back of the sofa when Xingxing turned its head.

Xingxing trotted over to Zhan Yan to seek comfort.

“Meeooowww—”

Too awful! It tastes way too awful!

Zhan Jinli continued sitting on the sofa, scarfing down egg tarts crunch crunch.

Xingxing’s kitty eyes went completely round, looking at Zhan Jinli in disbelief.

He even eats something this awful-tasting; it seems his hunting skills truly are terrible.

Xingxing decided to forgive Zhan Jinli for the food he gave it tasting bad. The food he ate himself was even worse!

The Gossip System showed that Lan Xiqiao hadn’t slept a wink last night and only fell asleep at five in the morning today. After finishing the advertisement shoot and returning, she went straight to sleep and started dreaming again.

Zhan Yan’s spirit roused. Although he couldn’t hear sound through the Gossip System, he could see the lyrics. Let’s see what the lyrics were like first.

Anyway, as long as Lan Xiqiao remembered it, she would eventually produce this song. They’d all be able to hear it then.

The flamingo and peacock, two great bird demons, also sneaked into Lan Xiqiao’s dream, ready to hear what kind of song could stir people’s souls.

[The flamingo demon Yan Hang and the peacock demon Kong Meng heard the song created by the ghost Lin Yihao in Lan Xiqiao’s dream: “The Greatest Fruit is the Banana” Bananas don’t need you to spit out seeds, peel the skin and you can eat them. Monkeys snatch away the bananas, happiness flies into the jungle. Human evolution has gone too far, can only continue to work. Humans continue to work, without the great banana. The greatest fruit is the banana.]

[The flamingo demon Yan Hang and the peacock demon Kong Meng covered their ears in agony, hurriedly fleeing from Lan Xiqiao’s dream.]

[The flamingo demon Yan Hang and the peacock demon Kong Meng beat up the ghost Lin Yihao and dragged him to the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau.]

[Lan Xiqiao jolted awake from her dream, clearly remembering dreaming of two large birds chasing and beating up a person, while also remembering the song “The Greatest Fruit is the Banana” which she felt was incredibly soul-stirring in her dream.]

[Lan Xiqiao began doubting her life.]

[When the flamingo demon Yan Hang and the peacock demon Kong Meng reported the ghost Lin Yihao to the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau for the act of privately and repeatedly entering an ordinary person’s dream, causing the other party to be entangled in yin energy, the line “The greatest fruit is the banana” looped endlessly in their minds. The two demons grew angrier the more they thought about it and attempted to beat up the ghost Lin Yihao again, but were stopped by the people from the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau.]

[The flamingo demon Yan Hang and the peacock demon Kong Meng used spells to reproduce “The Greatest Fruit is the Banana” once for the people at the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau. The people at the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau began doubting their lives, hoping to pay a heavy price for a pair of ears that hadn’t heard it.]

Zhan Yan: …Pfft.

[You feel thankful that the Gossip System does not have an audio listening function.]

When going to sleep that night, Xingxing expressed that when it grew up, it could reluctantly hunt to feed Zhan Jinli.

It was too pitiful to eat such terrible-tasting prey every day.

Zhan Yan remembered Xingxing’s rapidly progressing expression and comprehension abilities. Just how much stuff had his brother rambled on about to Xingxing while he wasn’t home?

He opened the Gossip System and started searching.

Sure enough, his brother stopped being a mute with social anxiety when facing small animals, and spoke directly.

[Zhan Jinli nimbly dodged the little kitty Xingxing’s sneak attack and said: “I’m warning you, don’t come near me.”]

[Zhan Jinli swiftly grabbed the little kitty Xingxing by the scruff of its neck and said: “You are just a little kitty, don’t fail to appreciate my kindness.”]

[Zhan Jinli caught the little kitty Xingxing, who almost fell off the table trying to pounce on him, in one scoop: “Heh heh, foolish little kitty.”]

[Zhan Jinli said to the little kitty Xingxing, who was nodding off from exhaustion after playing: “Xingxing, you are just a little kitty, do you know what a little kitty is? You must possess cat virtue, do you know what cat virtue is? An excellent little kitty does not extend its claws at people…” The little kitty Xingxing was incredibly annoyed and, fighting through its sleepiness, bared its claws at Zhan Jinli. Zhan Jinli said: “You’re still extending them! A little kitty like you who doesn’t abide by cat virtue won’t be liked by anyone!”]